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by j_walter 5y ago
That's the point here...this book is available to middle schoolers without parental consent. And video games are available to children if their parents purchase them...the same as kids seeing rated R movies if accompanied by an adult.
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https://www.commonsensemedia.org/book-reviews/out-of-darknes... A website that reviews books and suggests when they are age appropriate says this book is suggested for 15+ year olds. The story is talking about middle
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You can certainly point toward Newberg school district in Oregon. They banned all flags except the US and state flag to get politics out of the classroom. All media coverage specifically says they banned rainbow flags and BLM flags...but
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Sure and it's still at the public library. This isn't a public library where parents take their kids and approve of the books they are getting. This is a middle school library where books are curated to the audience of middle sc
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For the same reason a 17 year old can't go to a movie theater and watch an R rated movie by themselves. Society has said certain aspects of life (violence, sex, language) need to be restricted until people reach a certain age.
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Is there much overlap when discussing a book in the middle school library that talks about dreaming of sexual assault? That seems to be the issue at hand here. What about if those libraries had movies and they allowed rated R movies in mid
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Did your middle school though?
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I think it was two rape cases by the same person at two different schools I believe...and that the first case was covered up and/or dismissed by the school admins.
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Why do some people feel that all college age kids needed a day off for mental health because Trump won an election or safe spaces because life is hard...but at the same time it's ridiculous that a high schooler was troubled by reading
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It does seem that perhaps parts of the book are more mature than what should be on the shelves of middle school library (although that could be taken out of context because I haven't read the book). I'm not sure why people are up
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> If I want to support a specific policy or candidate or the like on my private property by putting out a sign in their favor, necessarily I must have the right to prohibit anyone else from putting out any signs on my property supporting
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I went to HS in rural Oregon where the "you need to go to college to succeed" didn't work for most of the students. Trade options like metal shop, wood shop and construction slowly got less funding or were dropped all togeth
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On a not unrelated note, Kate Brown has been under fire for Oregon's awful HS graduation rates. While all of the changes are being made as "a response to the pandemic and a reassessment of our current graduation requirements&quot
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Many 20+ year old fabs are still expanding and the old machines are very hard to come by. We have recently even started converting 300mm machines to run 200mm wafers because those machines are easier to find. Not every chip runs on the la
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It takes a lot of work to find the right projects to invest money into...or if even less hands off then the right financial advisor to put their money with. Most "rich" people don't just sink their money into a ETF or mutual
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OP is most certainly talking about software development jobs being 100% remote...not all jobs being 100% remote.
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I did look for the parts because I was interested in getting one made...however many of the parts still aren't ready to go (control side), but the hardware cost other than that was fairly reasonable in the $500-800 range depending on h
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Reminds me of the Root CNC project. https://rootcnc.com/ Great work!
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You can't air cool the kind of heat they have. Evaporative cooling towers will always be needed.
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This is why I do most of my coding in vim...simple and easy. When it comes to debugging I can switch to VS, but when actually coding it is more focused on vim.
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What do you think cognitive decline means? IQ tests are also called cognitive assessments and the accurate ones (not the ones you take online) involve a lot of different aspects of assessing how your brain is working. Many psychologists d
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https://neurogrow.com/what-social-media-does-to-your-brain/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6502424/ For instance, the Internet's digital distractions and supernormal c
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Social media
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TSMC, the Taiwanese chipmaking giant that’s building a new plant in Phoenix(cnbc.com)
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In theory...but despite the sub 20% approval rating of congress over the last decade the same people keep getting voted into power. If you don't like the rich abusing their power...don't buy their product. Does it suck to not us
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You could also argue that 0.1% is directing all of the laws surrounding our economy...and those are our elected leaders. I'm not sure they are any better at figuring out where to direct the resources than those 10% are.
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Extremist is being used too often in the media. There are people everywhere on the political spectrum and 25% of the people on the right are being lumped in as right wing terrorists/extremists now. Meanwhile on the left you can litera
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You mean like many cryptos are pushing? A pub key and private key...
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In this case the irony lies in one of Chappelle's jokes from his special...murder a man and no one cares (Jaylin Craig), but have a joke that offends a gay person and you will be a target for cancellation.
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OK, well now you are getting on a different topic all together. I was talking about a poorly run safety net program...there was no need to pay people more money to not work during the pandemic. Want to pay 100% up to a cap then fine...but

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